But it was a massive DDoS attack that raised the bar further, targeting DNS provider Dyn with a massive IoT-based DDoS to take out hundreds of Web sites – including those of Twitter, GitHub, Spotify, the New York Times and others – in a series of attacks that affected a significant portion of the United States’ Internet. As the postmortem commenced, analysts said the DDoS attacks suggested reuse of old technology.

Yahoo requested the US government clarify the story around requests for its users’ data, even as it was revealed that a former NSA contractor was found to be hoarding two decades’ worth of classified materials.

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